Yesterday in Physics

March 28

Events

• 1979: Three Mile Island's partial nuclear melt down
  More: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html

Birthdays of Nobel Prize Winners

• 1930: Jerome I. Friedman
  • Nobel Prize in 1990 "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics"
  • Bio from the Nobel website

Other Birthdays

• 1921: Harold Agnew
  • "He was a scientific observer in The Great Artiste, a B-29 flying immediately behind the Enola Gay. Smuggling aboard a contraband movie camera, Agnew recorded the only known motion picture of the event."
  • More: http://www.pnas.org/content/110/48/19179.extract?sid=1b1151cb-a60b-45cc-80b8-c81ca0eeb498
• 1946: Wubbo Ockels
  • Physicist and astronaut
  • More: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Astronauts/Wubbo_J._Ockels

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